The best movie I’ve watched all summer long was made in 1948. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes is a hypnotic dead drop into the psyche of an ambitious ballerina who is ultimately ...
Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...
Movies often take viewers behind the scenes to show us how art and entertainment are created. For instance, "42nd Street," the Lloyd Bacon-Busby Berkeley musical from the early 1930s, told the inside ...
The two movies have other things in common. The denouement in Powell and Pressburger’s masterful film about art and mortality is the performance of a ballet called “The Red Shoes”, based on Hans ...
Almost a decade since its premiere, Matthew Bourne's double Olivier winner returns to Sadler's Wells this holiday season. Based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 film - itself based on ...